ph - 8.2
ammonia - 0
nitrite - 0
nitrate - 20
sg 1.005
temp 78f
weekly %50 wc's
just did a %50 wc couple of hours ago
2 - F8's
3 - BBG's
20g tank
Feed twice a day their diet consists of bloodworms, clam,krill, baby ramshorn snails.
Have had the puffers for little over a month now the tank itself has been running for over a year. I did the sg raise very slowly over a 3 week period. Everything has been totally fine until tonight. This a.m. I fed them a couple of little pieces of krill and they happily gobbled them up, this evening I first tried a clam and they completely ignored it which is totally unusual for them. Then I tested the water and saw the nitrates were around 30ppm so I promptly did a wc then about an hour after than tried feeding them some bloodworms and again they completly ignored them but the BBG's seem fine and they are eating no problem. Another thing that I noticed is their behavior changed today too as they are not greeting me when I come to the tank and they are just pacing up and down the glass. Bellies look normal, nice and white and not bloated whatsoever so I don't think it is constapation
Help would be greatly appreciated here, I think it might be the nitrates but I had just done a %50 wc last Friday.
Also should I maybe just only be feeding once a day, with a one day fast a week?
F8's not eating
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1) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate). This is by far the most important information you can provide! Do not answer this with "Fine" "Perfect" "ok", that tells us nothing. We need hard numbers.
2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants. Include algae eaters, plecos, everything. We need to know what you have and how big the tank is.
3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)
4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.
5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.
We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.
While you wait for assistance:
One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.
Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
Read this before posting!!
Since this board has been up, we have found there are several questions that routinely get asked in order to help diagnose problems. If you can have that information to begin with in your post, we'll be able to help right away (if we can!) without having to wait for you to post the info we need.
1) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate). This is by far the most important information you can provide! Do not answer this with "Fine" "Perfect" "ok", that tells us nothing. We need hard numbers.
2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants. Include algae eaters, plecos, everything. We need to know what you have and how big the tank is.
3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)
4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.
5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.
We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.
While you wait for assistance:
One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.
Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
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taureandragon76
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F8's not eating
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taureandragon76
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Re: F8's not eating
just rechecked the nitrates after the wc I did earlier and now the nitrates are down to 10ppm oh and BTW I use the API test kit
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spoot
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Re: F8's not eating
hmm, not sure what could be wrong TD. Maybe they lost their appetite because of the nitrates. Or they could just be full 
shouldn't worry too much if they feel like skipping a meal every once in a while. Are you doing 6 days feeding, 1 day skip?
shouldn't worry too much if they feel like skipping a meal every once in a while. Are you doing 6 days feeding, 1 day skip?-
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Re: F8's not eating
They should only be fed once a day. Overfeeding is not healthy.
Tina
Puffers: Auriglobus silus x1, Tetraodon travancoricus x1, Tetraodon turgidus x1, Tetraodon miurus x1, Tetraodon nigroviridis x2, Tetraodon baileyi x2, Tetraodon lineatus x1, Tetraodon palembangensis x1
Puffers: Auriglobus silus x1, Tetraodon travancoricus x1, Tetraodon turgidus x1, Tetraodon miurus x1, Tetraodon nigroviridis x2, Tetraodon baileyi x2, Tetraodon lineatus x1, Tetraodon palembangensis x1
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taureandragon76
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Re: F8's not eating
I am gonna go to only once a day and only 6 days a weeks and see what happens
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